Take a look at your water environment

What are the nutrient levels in your coastal waters or nearby lake? Do you live in an area where urban waste water treatment fails to meet the EU requirements? The European Environment Agency (EEA) provides the answers through its interactive maps, which have been updated with new water quality data.

Excessive levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in water bodies
can cause algal blooms and an associated loss in aquatic life. In addition,
their presence in drinking water requires expensive treatment. Agriculture and
waste water are the key sources of nutrients in water bodies.

Some maps
provide an overview of the water quality in European rivers, lakes, groundwater
and coastal waters. Local data can also be retrieved through a zoom function. As
a new feature, the areas designated as sensitive according to Article 5 of the
EU Urban
Waste Water Directive are displayed together with information on the
level of urban waste water treatment undertaken at each treatment plant.